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New York, New York, United States
@rachel40842511
Member since 2007
CURRENT MISSION Better&Better ABOUT ME I feel awkward writing about myself. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! PHILOSOPHY "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." -Anais Nin "We are men of action, lies do not become us." -The Princess Bride
Interested in Adventure Sports
Interested in Baking
Fluent in English
Learning French
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING everything from hosting to sending emails with tons of advice and tips! spreading the word about couchsurfing, as well as a mobile lifestyle. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Never a dull moment.
Music, Movies, and Books
Directors: Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Wong Kar Wei, Martin Scorcese, Pedro Almodovar, Fellini, Spike Lee, Michel Gondry, Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu. Guilty Pleasures: LOTR, Battlestar Galactica. Authors: Milan Kundera, Tom Robbins, Roberto Bolano, David Foster Wallace, Ernest Hemingway, Haruki Murakami, JRR Tolkien, etc. Poets: Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Ashbery, Eliot, Baudelaire, ee cummings, O'Hara, Bishop, Hass, Gluck, etc. Music: Otis Redding, David Bowie, Arcade Fire, Beirut, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Moldy Peaches, Neko Case, Tom Waits, Beach House, Feist, Al Green, Antony and the Johnsons, Radiohead, Wu Tang Clan, Bon Iver, Francoise Hardy, White Stripes, Robert Johnson, Pixies, Charles Mingus, Bonnie Raitt, Portishead, Bill Monroe, Fiona Apple, M. Ward, Jenny Lewis, Girltalk, The Knife, etc
One Amazing Thing I've Done
The french bedrooms at the Met. New York City blacked out. Sunrise over the city. Sunset over the Central Park Reservoir. Paris covered in Snow. The Louvre, the Tate Modern, MoMA. The beaches in Sicily. The outdoor market in Barcelona. There have been more and hopefully, there are more to come.
Teach, Learn, Share
"I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap." -Jacques Derrida
My Interests
adventures, aesthetics, alter egos, antiques, the apocalypse, architecture, baking, bbc, beauty, the blues, cheese, comic books, cooking, dancing, dim lights, dirty jokes, dresses, feminism, home pride, inappropriate laughter, knitting, lace, languages, literature, live music, mortal peril, movies, museums, ny times, parks, piglets, photography, poetry, politics, porches, puppies, reading in bed, signifier vs. signified, sewing, sweets, swings, traveling vs. wandering, windows, wine.
